Equal School Rights in Rhode Island

December 11, 1857

William Cooper Nell calls again for abandonment of separate schools for colored children, including in his appeal, reference to an article in the Providence Journal, which speaks of the proficiency of colored children in a school in that city. Nell asks,  “Why should such scholars be denied the facilities of schools in their respective districts, and be compelled to congregate into an exclusive school?….”

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